Oil burner



D. B. ROBERTS Jul fzs, 1930.

o IL BURNER Filed Jan. '21 1928 Patented July 29, 1930 PATENT OFFICE DAVID B'ROBERTS, OF HARTFORD, CONNECTICUT OIL BURNER Application filed January 21, 1928. Serial No. 248,484.

' The main object of my invention is to make unnecessary the remote location from an oil burner of the fuel supply, and thus gctrid of serious objections to the use of oil burna ers for that reason. I attain'my object and secure other advantages, by placing the fuelsupply, including the carburetor immediate ly adjacent the pump (which is locatedat the base of the furnace or heater) and preferably below the pump, and a part thereof or attached to it'and thereby, getting better results as the fuel is delivered to the burner immediately after carburetion and therefore without opportunity for it to change.

My invention consists in whatever is the construction that has the characteristics mentioned, and whatever is-described by or is included within the scope of the claim.

In the drawings the figure-is a vertical section, with parts in elevation. The general construction shown in the drawing is similar to that of my application, No. 248,483, filed Jan. 21, 1928, executedthe same date herewith which includes a furnace having an ash-pit, 10, above which is mounted a fire box, 11, having a fire-clay retaining wall, 12, a pump unit, 13, of the intermeshing gear ty e and an electric motor, 14, supported by tlie top plate'of the pump unit which motor has for anarmature shaft a vertical tion of an oil burner embodying my invention chamber in which the distributing means is located and a working chamber below the combustion chamber and containing the other elements and having side walls which surround said other elements and which form the floor base of the apparatus.

In testimony whereof I hereunto afiix my signature.

DAVID B. ROBERTS.

low the motor, a fuel supply on top of which I the pump directly rests'and takes fuel directly therefrom and a fuel distributing means, motor, pump and fuel supply being joined together to constitute a single unit, a combus- 

